TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Online communities form a challenging and still-evolving field for social network research. We highlight two themes that are at the core of social network literature: formative processes and structures, and discuss how these might be relevant in the context of online communities. Processes of tie formation might evolve differently in online communities. Second, we discuss how network structures emerge in different ways than previously studied, and should therefore be interpreted differently.
VL  - 40
SN  - 978-1-78350-751-1, 978-1-78350-752-8/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040023
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040023
AU  - Groenewegen Peter
AU  - Moser Christine
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Online Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Network Research
T2  - Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 463
EP  - 477
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -